It might be 30 years since their last album, but “Room 36” proves that French post-punkers, Corpus Delicti have lost none of the bite. After storming back with a series of reunion shows that lit up stages worldwide and a double live set From Dust to Light that silenced any doubters, the band is now set to drop a new studio album, Liminal. Far from nostalgia, it’s a reminder—and a warning—that they’re still a driving force in the shadows of the post-punk underground.
And as a taste of what’s to come, they give us “Room 36.” Raw and visceral, blending industrial grit with gothic groove, they remind us that post-punk might have been a genre and associated with a very certain era, but it survives and remains relevant in the modern age because it is also an attitude. One that is confrontational and creative, explanatory and experimental, one that builds on a significant body of work and constructs bridges from there into the present, and indeed the future.
What better way to announce your return to the fray than with a song that is intense and intriguing, raw and rebellious? What better way indeed.
(Now go and check out their cover of Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”…you will either love it or be appalled, and I suspect that Corpus Delicti will be happy with either outcome! This is a band that says, you can love us, you can hate us, but you can’t ignore us.
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[…] “Room 36” tells you everything about where we find them today, a powerful blend of post-punk-infused alt-rock energies, punky punch and dark sonics, stopping on just the less predictable side of the gothic sound proper but still bathing to some degree in its shade and mystery, in the same way that, say, The Membranes side-stepped easy definition and pigeon-holing. […]